FIFA’s Promise of Prosperity
The night of 30th June, 2013 shall go down memory as one of intense drama in…
December, 2013
Some Dark Humour
The accompanying image might elicit varied reactions…from giggles to utter disbelief at the sheer “stupidity” of the…
The Others Amongst Us
Hansal Mehta’s quietly bold film Shahid, manages to take an honest look at the fissures in…
Post-Miley Feminism
Much of the media attention on Miley Cyrus’s“twerking” episode has revolved around the criticism – and,…
Calico: The Cat that May Never Come out of the Bag
Saswat Pattanayak examines the implications of entrusting secretive, unaccountable and all-pervasive corporate monopolies with decisions about…
Mard
There has been a recent flurry of media campaigns to reconceive masculinity in terms of “real…
Wild West Tamas
Amid the green-revolution-borne extractionist abundance of Western UP, local life remained steeped in stagnant, rotting inertia… until the…
America, America
Since Edward Snowden blew the cover on America’s vast surveillance operation against everyone from international allies…
History in the Remaking
BJP invokes a mythologised Sardar Patel to give itself legitimacy. Poornima Joshi reads between the lines. For…
Otherworldly
India’s mission to Mars should be celebrated, because peaceful scientific achievements and investments in knowledge can bring…